Hello,

we get this stacktrace when saving modified PDFs:

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot read while there is an open 
stream writer
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream.createRawInputStream(COSStream.java:128)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.visitFromStream(COSWriter.java:1138)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSStream.accept(COSStream.java:369)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.doWriteObject(COSWriter.java:538)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.doWriteBody(COSWriter.java:450)
        at 
org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.visitFromDocument(COSWriter.java:1039)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.cos.COSDocument.accept(COSDocument.java:445)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.write(COSWriter.java:1289)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfwriter.COSWriter.write(COSWriter.java:1190)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.save(PDDocument.java:1212)

There is already an issue in jira but since july it is still WIP in progress so 
we are looking for a workaround until the issue is fixed.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2893 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2893>

What we are actually doing is attaching a file to pdf and save it under a new 
name.

The error occurs in our case when we set the metadata:
   private void setMetadata(PDDocument doc, AppendParameter appendParameter) 
throws IOException, TransformerException,
         BadFieldValueException {
      Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
      PDDocumentCatalog catalog = doc.getDocumentCatalog();

      PDMetadata metadata = new PDMetadata(doc);
      //catalog.setMetadata(metadata);

new XmpSerializer().serialize(xmp, metadata.createOutputStream(), true);

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